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cardmaking trials

Well, I have been doing a bit of cardmaking practicing...feeling a little bit better, but am realising how many things I need if I am gonna do proper cards the way I want to...I need more cardstock to start with...I need more colors of ink pads...I need more greetings to add on...but this is what I've come up with so far:)




The last one is the one I need to put a greeting on, but then I do not know who I am sending it to so I don't know what kind of greeting I need...lol

And, below you can see my playing with pens and chalk...




I am quite pleased, especially with the butterflies:) I am gonna have to do them again as the cutting I did with scissors made them uneven and I did not even put them in a straight line...but they are pretty:) I have so many stamps I have not even used...and I got this backing sticky business that was supposed to be sooo good to use with stamps, putting them at the back of the stamp, and it was supposed to be sticky so you can put them on a rockablock or something similar, but unfortunately the glue side attaching to the stamps ended up sticky and the stamps slid off, so now everything is sticky...just ridiculous. So I am gonna have to use some spirit or something to clean the stamps up...and I need to get rockablocks for my bigger stamps. But I am starting to find it more fun now with stamping and cardmaking:)

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  1. mdgtjulie28 June 2011 at 13:47

    I just love the owls. Feel free to send them to me, lol. Cute, cute, cute! All your cards look good. I like the butterflies especially too. They are very pretty. I hope you get a hold on the sticky soon!!

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  2. Wolfie29 June 2011 at 14:56

    I am gonna go to Hobbycraft tomorrow to have a quick look at prices, and if they are ok, then I will get some rockablocks, waterpen and some other little bits:)

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  3. mdgtjulie3 July 2011 at 19:07

    Cool. Nothing perks you up more than a shopping trip!!!

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